At an election rally last week in a Nazlt El-Batran, a working-class Giza neighbourhood, Mohsen El-Batran, general coordinator of the National Council of Egyptian Tribes, stood in front of hundreds of residents and spoke about his family's history of providing MPs.

Workers from the Religious Endowments Ministry (MRE) protested outside Abdin Palace on Sunday, demanding permanent contracts and delayed dues dating back to 2011, but security dispersed the group during the night.

Twelve school bus driverss tested positive for hashish and Tramadol in the fourth and fifth days of a campaign by the Education Ministry, Youm7 reported Monday.

A Cairo court ordered the release of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, stating that they have already compeleted their three-year prison sentence in the case the "presidential palaces" case.

Putin and Salman met in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Sunday where they were also joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Energy Minister Alexander Novak. The Russian Formula One Grand Prix was held in Sochi on Sunday.

Liberal Free Egyptians party (FEP) founder Naguib Sawiris said in a TV interview on Saturday that his party was not looking for a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Journalists at the 11-year-old, privately-owned daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm staged a protest inside their newsroom on Sunday, condemning plans by the board to lay off 60 percent of the workforce.

A Ministry of Antiquities official was charged Sunday with spreading “false news” on probable collapse of Pyramid of Djoser (4,600-year-old Step Pyramid of Sakkara) due to restorations works in 2014, according to a statement from the prosecution.

Egypt expects to receive $1.5 billion in loans from the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) by the end of 2015, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said, as part of efforts to boost foreign currency reserves and bolster the economy.

The Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) outlined 10 media regulations for covering the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed over the phone the latest security and political developments in the Middle East with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin late Wednesday, MENA reported.

Egypt’s support for the Russian military involvement in favor of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may strain its relations with oil-rich Saudi Arabia, analysts said.

A new 16,500-bottle batch of American manufactured Hepatitis C drug Solvadi will hit the market Friday, after the Central Bank paid $4 million to the customs department.

An Egyptian criminal court renewed on Thursday the detention of two men who have been under preventive detention for over 600 days for wearing anti-torture T-shirts, according to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression's (AFTE) official website.

A French official source said in a statement on Thursday that a loan of 70 million euros and another of 80 million euros to Egypt will be signed during the visit of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who will also meet with the Franco-Egyptian Business Club to discuss investment and trade possibilities.

Egypt’s net international reserves plunged for a third straight month to hit $16.33 billion at September-end, marking a $1.76 billion decline from $18.09 billion a month earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced Wednesday.

A total of 18 bus drivers have tested positive for drugs in random screening campaign that is entering its third day Wednesday, reported Youm7.

Some 218 prisoners have been pardoned by a presidential decree to commemorate the 6th of October War, the Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday.

Dozens of pro-Hosni Mubarak supporters gathered in Cairo early Tuesday to salute the ousted president at the Maadi Military Hospital for his role in the 6 October War of 1973.

Libyan anti-illegal migration troops arrested Tuesday 96 Egyptians in the Libyan territories, and 50 other unregistered migrants were deported in 24 hours over the Libyan-Egyptian border crossing in Sallum.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not in talks with Egypt about a new loan program, IMF Mission Chief for Egypt Chris Jarvis has said.